The Seattle post-punk trio Lindseys are readying their sophomore LP effort How to Share Your Faith Without an Argument for release on July 13th via Den Tapes. Formed by guitarist/vocalist Devin Cochran back in 2009, and joined by Devin Wolf on drums in the years following, the band has been kicking around town for awhile now. Originally playing a brand of trashed out hardcore, Lindseys’ debut EP Trauma Quean came out on GGNZLA Records back in 2011, and was followed up by their 2013 post-punk long-player Religious Sexts on the short-lived label Off the Books Records.
In 2015, the group added bassist Matt Leingang (Serenghetto, Validation) to the fold before eventually heading into Earwig Studios with engineer Don Farwell to record How to Share Your Faith Without an Argument. The record reveals that the band’s sound has evolved into a continuedly hard-driving but increasingly complex amalgam of influences. The addition of Leingang on bass, and with drummer Devin Wolf moonlighting as a hip-hop artist, as well as Cochran’s sometimes staccato, rap-like delivery, takes the group’s hardcore influences in a very interesting kind of cross-over direction.
“Wrath Mother” is our first listen in on the new effort, and while it closes the record, it finds the band with more than enough still in the tank to fire on all cylinders. Taking aim at zealots and religious hypocrisy, the cut begins with a snippet of found sound that might have been borrowed from the album’s namesake, a Christian tape called “How to Share Your Faith Without an Argument.” More than happy to do the devil’s work here, Lindseys’ anger boils over into a seething riot of sound. With bass and drums providing hard-hitting flurries of rhythm, Cochran follows suit delivering serrating guitar lines and a maniacal vocal delivery. One listen to “Wrath Mother” and you’ll know this is not a band that suffers fools gladly!
